Desktop icon colors

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Desktop icon colors

#1 Post by zzyss » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:20 am

This has been happening for a while now, but I totally forgot about it until I updated the driver recently:

Basically, if I run my desktop in 16-bit colour, all my icons end up losing their colors, like turned into 256 color palette or something. I've tried using TweakUI to repair my icons, etc. but nothing will give them back their colors. The only way to fix this problem, it seems, is to set my desktop to 32-bit color.

Unfortunately, this has the side effect of making some window redraws quite slow.

Has anybody else come across this problem before, and is there any solution other than the one described?
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#2 Post by zzyss » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:09 am

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#3 Post by Elhabash » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:14 pm

Well, I don't like the 16bit-appearance, so this is no option anyways, but when I switch the desktop to 16bit, my icons look like Win95-icons, too. Very ugly.
Maybe there is a way around it, but almost everything looks nicer in 32bit colors, so why son't you just use that and bite the sour apple of some slow windows?
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#4 Post by migo2137 » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:00 am

The same thing happens to me when switching to 16-bit mode. It does that when I want to extend my desktop. Since my graphic card has only 8 MB (S3 Savage), I thought it was due to lack of memory.

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